Peter The Great First Wife

Peter s mother selected his first wife eudoxia lopukhina with the advice of other nobles in 1689.

Peter the great first wife. A few years later peter crowned her as empress of russia and when he died he named her as the fittest person to be his successor on the throne. Catherine was the first woman to rule imperial russia opening the legal path for a century almost entirely dominated by women including her daughter elizabeth and granddaughter in law catherine the great all of whom continued peter the great s policies in modernizing russia. Peter was born in moscow the only son of czar alex to his father s second wife natalia narishkina. Unlike his half brothers sons of his father s first wife mariya ilinichna miloslavskaya peter proved a healthy child lively and inquisitive.

Peter the great had two wives with whom he had fourteen children three of whom survived to adulthood. Thus the peasant girl of livonia who was made a captive in war and a servant rose by her genius and courage to be the sole ruler of a great empire the first woman who ever reigned over russia. Peter didn t get along with his first wife divorced her in 1698 and forced her into joining a. Peter the greats first marriage or the first wife it should say was sent to a nunnery along with his half sister for sympathizing with the streltsy which he had 1000 of them put to death.

9 peter the great married a servant and crowned her empress in 1724. Peter i better known as peter the great is generally credited with bringing russia into the modern age. This was consistent with previous romanov tradition by choosing a daughter of a minor noble. He prepared to marry anna despite her lowly birth but the discovery that she was having affairs with other men destroyed the relationship and resulted in anna being placed under house arrest.

Peter had 13 half brothers and sisters to his father s first wife. Peter first married at the age of 17 on 27th january 1689 to eudoxia lopukhina. Peter was the son of tsar alexis by his second wife natalya kirillovna naryshkina. When peter was just four years old his father czar alex died leaving a power vacuum over who would inherit the throne.